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Voting for a Founding
Pope & Treier, JOP 2015
Replication Files Description

These files contain data and code necessary to replicate the results of “Voting for a Founding: Testing the effect of economic interests at the Federal Convention of 1787, The Journal of Politics, 2015, 77:519 - 534. 

The files are divided as follows.

DATA
The data folder contains two files (“individual_votes_archive_finaljop” and “yeanay”) containing data necessary to replicate.  

Data on state and individual voting is in “individual_votes_archive_finaljop.” Data are based on Farrand and author coding of clear speeches and motions.  Note that not all data available in the file are used in the paper.  As just one example, procedural votes are omitted from the analysis.  Other votes may be in the data but are not part of the analysis.  This file also contains covariates described in the paper.  Please contact the authors with questions (jpope@byu.edu and shawn.treier@anu.edu.au).  “yeanay” gives the coding of votes by dimension. 

PREPARATION
In this folder “check_votes_figure_1.R” confirms and checks the data (in the previous folder) in preparation for analysis.  Figure 1 from the paper can also be produced with this file. The remaining two files prepare the data for processing in R and WinBUGS.

ESTIMATION
“Regression_model_3D_bugs.txt” in this folder is for WinBUGS processing and estimation of the data.  Instructions on its use are in the header of the file.  Data files for WinBUGS can be found in the subfolder.

ANALYSIS
All of the files in this sub-folder should be relatively self explanatory.  Each file is necessary to produce the regression output (analysis_regress.R), and paper figures (figure_2.R).

RESULTS
Though these coefficients can be produced by the replication files, a set of results files are provided as a check on the data in the paper.

Note: The appendix replication folders each have corresponding files for estimation of those specifications
